Jay Cutler

Jay Cutler is quarterback of the Chicago Bears who led the team to the NFC Championship in January 2011 at Soldier Field, where the NFC Central team lost to the division rival Green Bay Packers 21-14. Cutler, a Vanderbilt University graduate, came to the Bears in a trade with the Denver Broncos, where he was 17-20 as a starter, in April 2009. The Bears also received a fifth-round draft pick. The team gave up two first-round picks, a third-round pick and quarterback Kyle Orton in the deal. The Broncos drafted Cutler No. 11 in the 2006 NFL draft. He was born April 29, 1983, in Georgia but grew up in Santa Claus, Ind. He attended Heritage Hill High School in Lincoln City, Ind., where the football team won its first state title. He graduated from Vanderbilt with a degree in human and organizational development in 2005. He was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 2008. Cutler married reality TV star and actress Kristin Cavallari in 2013 in Nashville, Tenn.; they have two children.

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